Solar Nova Scotia
Annual General Meeting

February 11th, 2002
Cambridge Military Library

Agenda

• Approval of Agenda
• Presentation on Financing Wind Energy by Brian Watling
• Approval of Minutes from 2001 AGM
• Chair's Report - Norval Collins
• Treasurer's Report - Don Roscoe
• Membership Report - Keith Robertson
• Report on Rise and Shine 2000 Finances - Keith Robertson
• Election of Officers
• Breakout into Discussion Groups
  • Train the Trainer for Solar Basics
  • Moving Forward on the Millenium Home Inventory Project
• Tea, Coffee and Snacks

The meeting came to order at 7:45 after the city was freshly warmed, rained, snowed and then iced.

Present

Regrets: Shawna Henderson

Brian Watling: Financing Wind Energy

Wind power in Europe is growing at 25-40%/year. There are good examples of technology used in Co-op model. Equity finance is different; it needs a board of directors which brings some strength to the business.

There is a 30% investment tax credit and 20% guarantee if you're outside HRM.

In December, the Energy Strategy came down - "ye shall have guaranteed access to the grid, and customers, at a fair price."

Approval Of Last Years Minutes

Keith noted that the totals of Recepts & expenditures, $3204.53 should be $3024.53

Motion to approve the amended minutes by Keith, 2nded by Carolyn

Chair's Report

The last year has been busy with home tours, home shows, solar shelter courses, and submissions to the province's energy policy development.

Solar Nova Scotia carried on activities last year, including:

• Two successful tours of local passive solar homes.
• Participation in three home shows in partnership with Thermo Dynamics Ltd.
• Don Roscoe continued to organize his Solar Shelter courses.

Last year we made some improvements to Solar Nova Scotia's display used at the home shows, and plan to keep making improvements this year. We also video taped the Solar Shelter course this past year for use in developing training materials.

The web site plays an important role in gaining interest in Solar Nova Scotia. Dan MacKay has been keeping the site current with events, minutes, and has even added some images of Solar houses. The URL is http://chebucto.ns.ca/Technology/SolarNS/.

We would like to get more involved in the weekly home magazines and our big project should be the Millenium Home Inventory. This year we want to focus on training people to help deliver parts of the solar shelter course, and getting the Millenium Home Inventory Project underway. We'll have two breakout groups for more details about these two projects after the business part of the agm.

The SNS crew continues to hold informal gatherings at Maxwell's Plum on Friday afternoons at 5:00. Everyone is welcome.

Treasurer's Report

Statement of Receipts & Expenditures

for the year ended November 30, 2001

Projected Yearly $ Profile

Rise & Shine 2000 Financial Report

Motion to approve the Membership and Financial statements by Pete, seconded by Lara.

Election Of Officers

Norval moved to accept the slate of officers for 2002, Carolyn seconded, all in favour, motion passed.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:00pm.